Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thanks and compliments to you , mother India !!!

2011-04-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Mahitgar, This issue was discussed in another thread. It is a serious matter, and we all need to spread awareness about it. Regards, Srikanth R. On 1 April 2011 01:23, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia mahit...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Message: 2 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:33:56 +0530 From:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

2011-04-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Great work. Congratulations. When will this be extended to Devanagari? --Regards, Srikanth R. On 1 April 2011 11:04, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Happy to see the work on URL shortener. Congratulations for everyone involved. As domain names can be used in Indian

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

2011-04-01 Thread Nikhil Sheth
Greetings All, Does anybody know how to extract the permalink of the latest revision of a wikipedia article - FAST and in bulk? Request for a tool to any developers out there: Please create a tool such that if I input a list of titles (all of which are wikipedia articles) - separated by comma or

[Wikimediaindia-l] Translation, Transliterating, and more.

2011-04-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya guys, I just wanted to bring up a few questions and other things. At a meetup Last year [January 2010, Bangalore], a few guys from Google had showcased their Translator Toolkit. I wanted to know how many people use this. This tool, while it might seems useless to some, actually is essential

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Feedback] or [What was I upto?]

2011-04-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya again. I thought of this idea today. I figured it might help. How about we [on a regular basis], list out our major contributions on various Wikimedia projects on a periodic basis? The advantages of this stupidity are: * Editors might find someone else who edits articles of similar nature

[Wikimediaindia-l] Translators needed for Huggle.

2011-04-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya, Sorry for the slew of messages. Huggle is an application for dealing with vandalism, written in .NET. Huggle is currently available in a bunch of languages, for language specific wikis, none of which are Indian. Huggle is currently being translated into THREE Indian languages: Hindi [by

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Feedback] or [What was I upto?]

2011-04-01 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Good idea Srikanth, Well someone is working / want to work on similar lines. Check out the GSoC proposal here:- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zhenya http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:ZhenyaHope the project gets accepted and delivered :) Regards Srikanth.L On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 19:41,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2nd Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Academy/Workshop Bhubaneswar, 2011April03, 10 AM

2011-04-01 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Just a reminder of the upcoming Odia Worksop at Bhubaneswar. Subhashish , Shiju Alex and me are travelling to Bhubaneswar for this. Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, This is Subhashish from Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia.